Ernest earned his B.Sc.(Hons) and M.Phil. Chemistry degrees from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana in 2016 and 2019, respectively under the supervision of Professor Richard Tia. At this stage, he used molecular modeling techniques to study the reaction mechanisms of several interesting organic, acid-, and transition metal-catalyzed reactions and contributed to several peer reviewed articles. At the same time, Ernest worked directly with several undergraduate seniors and graduate students for their thesis which led to peer-reviewed publications with many of them.

Ernest began his graduate studies at Auburn University in Spring 2020 and joined the Professor Vincent Ortiz’s quantum chemistry group in May 2020. Graduate research works are focused on development and applications of a new generation of electron and polarization propagators for accurate prediction of ionization energies, electron affinities, excitation energies, and associated transition probabilities and Dyson orbitals. Second theme of graduate research is focused on identification of a new generation of exotic molecules with particular focus on multiple Rydberg anions. The new generation of methods will be deployed for spectra assignment, prediction and interpretation of electron binding energies (ionization energies, detachment energies and electron affinities) of DNA and RNA fragments, fullerene anions, metalloporphyrins and other multiply charged molecular ions.